Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
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Mind your manners, diners, restaurants are turning the tables on grumpy reviewers | Kate Maltby
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Report: New Orleans Saints have 'got their eye' on former All-Pro free agent WR
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🧱 Burnley's iron-clad defence sets new Championship record
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Just Dance: How the Founder of Jazzercise Started a Revolution
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The kindness of strangers: I thought I’d lost my flute for ever, then a chance to play Greensleeves returned it to me
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Covid ‘benevolence bump’ endures as acts of kindness 10% higher than before 2020
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Who invented the March Madness bracket? A bar and a postal worker stake claims
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The ancient Chinese didn’t just invent gunpowder — they created the picnic
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National security adviser Mike Waltz says 'all options' on the table in responding to Iran
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Strangers twice as kind as we think, study suggests
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Harvard announces free tuition for families making under $200K annually
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‘Nothing is off the table’ on EU defence funding, says Ursula von der Leyen
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Starmer says 'all options on table' on US tariffs
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The Players Championship: McIlroy, Scheffler and Schauffele stage the kind of showdown golf needs
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He remembers a different kind of baseball, relaxed and chatty. 'Eephus' gets it on film
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WATCH: Teacher turns tragedy into good deeds with $20 kindness challenge
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The Lions’ proposed NFL playoff change would make divisions kind of pointless
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Why Kindness and Intentionality Matter More Than Ever in Business
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200 years after the creation of braille, blind people in Mali say it has allowed them to fit in
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Bookmakers dinner: An exclusive seat at the table with legends of Las Vegas
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Expelled! review – turning the tables on the private school class hierarchy
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'Room for improvement' for top-of-the-table Hibs, says boss Scott
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